The very first sentence
of " Winter Journal" by Paul Auster

"You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you,  in the same way they happen to everyone else."


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June 

The very first sentence
of "A firing offense" by George Pelecanos

"Torn lottery tickets and hot dog wrappers - the remnants of Goergia Avenue Day - blew across the strip."



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June 

The very first sentence
of "A year in Provence" by Peter Mayle

"The year began with lunch."

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  June

The very first sentence
of " Things fall apart" by Chinua Adrebe

"Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond."

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June

The very first sentence
of " Main-travelled roads" by Hamlin Garland

"A Branch-Road. In the windless September dawn, a voice went singing, a man's voice, singing a cheap and common air."



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June

The very first sentence
of "Food for sharks" by Vincent Starrett

"From the rail of the promenade deck , while hundreds of our fellow passengers hostled around us, Jimmie Lavender and I watched the colorful uproar of departure."

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June

People from here and there

By the Seine, near Paris

The very first sentence

of "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen

"No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine."

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June

The very first sentence
of "The Go-Between" by L.P Hardy

"The eighth of July was a Sunday and on the following Monday I left West Hatch, the village where we lived near Salisbury, for Bradham Hall."



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June

People from here and there

Laos

The very first sentence
of "Perfect honeymoon" by Robert Barnard

"By the time Carol reached her unspoiled Greek honeymoon island, she was beginning to wish it could have been just that tiny bit spoiled."

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 June

The very first sentence

of To have and have not" by Ernest Hemingway

"Harry Morgan. Spring. You know how it is there early in the morning in Havana with the bums still asleep against the walls of the buildings;before even the ice wagons come by ice for the bars ?"

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June

The very first sentence
of "Porterhouse Blue" by Tom Sharpe

"It was a fine Feast. No one, not even the Praelector who was so old he could remember the Feast of  '09, could recall its equal-and Porterhouse is famous for its food."

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June

The very first sentence
of " The job" by Douglas Kennedy

"Business was good today. I wheeled, I dealed, I schmoozed, I closed."


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 June

People from here and there

By the Seine in the Yvelines. France

The very first sentence
of "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" by John Gray

"Imagine that men are from Mars and women are from Venus"



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June

The very first sentence
of " A separate peace" by John Knowles

"I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before."

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June

People from here and there

Tamil Nadu, India

The very first sentence
of "The big sleep" by Raymond Chandler

"It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid-October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills."

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June

The very first sentence
of "Under the net" by Iris Murdoch

"When I saw Finn waiting for me at the corner of the street I knew at once that something had gone wrong."

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June

The very first sentence
of "The man with the twisted lip" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the Theological College of St George's, was much addicted to opium."

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June

The very first sentence
of "To kill a mocking-bird" by Harper Lee

"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."



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June

The very first sentence
of "My life on a plate" by India Knight

"What should happen is, I should somehow catch my reflection in a mirror, or a shop window, fifty or so pages in, and describe myself to you that way"



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June

People from here and there

Old Spitalfields Market, London

The very first sentence

of "The lifted veil" by George Eliot

"The time of my end approaches."

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June

People from here and there


Brasil

The very first sentence 
of "Bliss" by Katherine Mansfield

"Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at-nothing- at nothing, simply."

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June

The very first sentence

of "Babycakes" by Armistead Maupin

"A Royal Welcome. She was fifty-seven years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time."

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June 

People from here and there

Bargee. France